Tag: fossils
Horses lived in the Americas for millions of years – new...
Stephanie Killingsworth, University of Florida and Bruce J. MacFadden, University of Florida
Many people assume that horses first came...
Reconstructing ancient bacterial genomes can revive previously unknown molecules – offering...
Christina Warinner, Harvard University; Alexander Hübner, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Pierre Stallforth, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Microorganisms –...
Megalodon sharks ruled the oceans millions of years ago – new...
Emma Kast, University of Cambridge; Jeremy McCormack, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and Sora Kim, University of California, Merced
Millions of years ago, the megalodon ruled the oceans – why...
Michael Heithaus, Florida International University
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Yorkicystis, the 500 million-year-old relative of starfish that lost its skeleton
Samuel Zamora, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME - CSIC)
After four years of digging for fossils in...
Fossil spine suggests ancient human relative walked like us, but climbed...
Scott A. Williams, New York University
Around two million years ago an ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba, lived in...
Is it possible to recreate dinosaurs from their DNA?
William Ausich, The Ohio State University
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A volcanic eruption 39 million years ago buried a forest in...
Deborah Woodcock, Clark University and Herb Meyer, National Park Service
In the hills outside the small village of Sexi,...